Truth Quotes
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Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'
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I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.
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Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed.
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Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
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A far greater glory is it to the wise to die for freedom, the love of which stands in very truth implanted in the soul like nothing else, not as a casual adjunct but an essential part of its unity, and cannot be amputated without the whole system being destroyed as a result.
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Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.
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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
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Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.
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Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work.
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I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.
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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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I've got a certain derring-do about me. I'm an explorer for the truth in a jungle of political overgrowth.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
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Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses.
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The truth is the best propaganda.
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One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.
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There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.
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In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.
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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
